See, modest Cibber now has left the stage:
Our
generals
now, retired to their estates,
Hang their old trophies o'er the garden gates,
In life's cool evening satiate of applause,
Nor fond of bleeding, even in Brunswick's cause.
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"Non tifidar" it is the sword that speaks
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Thou trusted'st in thyself and met the blade Thout mask or gauntlet, and art laid
As memorable broken blades that be
Kept as bold
trophies
of old pageantry.
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Who hath the power (I ask), who hath the power
To rule the sum of the immeasurable,
To hold with steady hand the giant reins
Of the
unfathomed
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Through highway, field, and wood, a gloomy beat,
More than ten weary miles the damsel rode,
Ere any crossed her path on mischief bent,
Or even questioned
witherward
she went.
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But you said that when you wrote
You were staying for the night to the east of Shang-chou;
Sitting alone, lighted by a solitary candle
Lodging in the
mountain
hostel of Yang-Ch'?
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Cynthia's Sickness_
DEFICIVNT
magico torti sub carmine rhombi,
et iacet exstincto laurus adusta foco;
et iam Luna negat totiens descendere caelo,
nigraque funestum concinit omen auis.
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Thou, when the giants,
threatening
wrack,
Were clambering up Jove's citadel,
Didst hurl o'erweening Rhoetus back,
In tooth and claw a lion fell.
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To-night, beneath the
moonlight
sky,
What may be done with Peter Bell!
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8 Wind and clouds
followed
the fleetest feet,9 8 sun and moon continued on the high streets of Heaven.
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He has left us no
penetrating
criticisms of Byron, of Shelley, or of Keats;
and in a very interesting letter about Blake, written in 1818, he is unable
to take the poems merely as poems, and chooses among them with a scrupulous
care "not for the want of innocence in the poem, but from the too probable
want of it in many readers.
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Shelley, you feel, sings like a
bird; Blake, like a child or an angel; but
Coleridge
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Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Theseus' widow dares to love
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Then shall I soone (quoth he) so God me grace,
Abet that virgins cause disconsolate,
And shortly backe returne unto this place, 570
To walke this way in
Pilgrims
poore estate.
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Pity the tuneful Muses' hapless train,
Weak, timid
landsmen
on life's stormy main!
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Why pitiest one whom all gods wholly hate,
One who to man gave o'er thy
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
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"You are a
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The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose;
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The
sunshine
is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth.
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Golden Treasury |
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The cold, gray light of the dawning
On old Carillon falls,
And dim in the mist of the morning
Stand the grim old
fortress
walls.
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Villon |
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Roteando cantava, e dicea: <
son le mie note a te, che non le 'ntendi,
tal e il
giudicio
etterno a voi mortali>>.
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A passage in the "Preface",
suppressed
by
Ollier, was restored by Mr.
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Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am
sometime
absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
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They listend to the Elemental Harps & Sphery Song
They view'd the dancing Hours, quick sporting thro' the sky
With winged radiance scattering joys thro the ever changing light
[The shades of]But Luvah & Vala standing in the bloody sky
On high remaind alone forsaken in fierce jealousy
They stood above the heavens forsaken desolate
suspended
in blood
Descend they could not.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yea, well they fared unto the evening god,
Passing beyond the limit of the world,
Where face to face the son his mother saw,
A living man a shadow, while she spake
Words that
Odysseus
and that Homer heard,--
_I too, O child, I reached the common doom,
The grave, the goal of fate, and passed away_.
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Aeschylus |
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My prayers were scant, my
offerings
few,
While witless wisdom fool'd my mind;
But now I trim my sails anew,
And trace the course I left behind.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The vida claims that Raimbaut spied on Beatrice in her shift
practising
with her husband's sword, after which he called her his Bel Cavalier.
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The beams of evening, slipping soft between,
Light up of
tranquil
joy a sober scene.
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However, Sir, don't let me mislead you, as if I would
interest
your
pity.
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You this day have broken
Three of our
strictest
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These lines from _W_ make the sense more
complete and the
transition
to the closing invocation less abrupt.
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John Donne |
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His own parents, he that had father'd him and she that had conceiv'd
him in her womb and birth'd him,
They gave this child more of themselves than that,
They gave him
afterward
every day, they became part of him.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Scarcely
was the first course served when another noise than that of
music was heard.
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These mark the spot where lies the
treasure
Worth!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a
quivering
moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
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Byers
O
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And yet thou shalt not fear me
wronging
thee:
Tell me, O thou Despair, whither thou goest?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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As streames are, Power is; those blest flowers that dwell
At the rough streames calme head, thrive and do well,
But having left their roots, and
themselves
given 105
To the streames tyrannous rage, alas, are driven
Through mills, and rockes, and woods, and at last, almost
Consum'd in going, in the sea are lost:
So perish Soules, which more chuse mens unjust
Power from God claym'd, then God himselfe to trust.
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John Donne |
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In Bayard Taylor's The Echo Club we
find on page 24 this criticism: "There was a
congenital
twist about Poe
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The sense
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us to read:
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Troop-Horses are far too
tenderly
treated as a rule.
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I reverence the divine
Sun and the Gods, and I love you, and care
Even for this hard accuser--who must know _505
I am as
innocent
as they or you.
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Shelley |
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I would build for thee
An altar deep in the sad soul of me;
And in the darkest corner of my heart,
From mortal hopes and mocking eyes apart,
Carve of
enamelled
blue and gold a shrine
For thee to stand erect in, Image divine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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the rogue is racing from his court;
And with still
fearless
front he faces them and calls:
"READY!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Let my foes choke, and my friends shout afar,
While through the
thronged
streets your bridal car
Wheels round its dazzling spokes.
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If ears are porches, mouth, nose, and eyes had better be doors and windows; yet the concept of
micromacrocosm
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Blake - Zoas |
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"You may charge me with murder--or want of sense--
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the
slightest
approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!
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Thou hast brought it about that both our peoples,
sons of the Geat and Spear-Dane folk,
shall have mutual peace, and from
murderous
strife,
such as once they waged, from war refrain.
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Like a man making himself in drunken sleep
A king, my soul, drunk with its earthly war,
Kept idle all its terrible want of thee,
Believed itself managing arms with God;
Yea, when my
trampling
hurry through the earth
Made cloudy wind of the light human dust,
I thought myself to move in the dark danger
Of blinding God's own face with blasts of war!
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Nec tamen illa mihi dextra deducta paterna
Fragrantem Assyrio venit odore domum,
Sed furtiva dedit muta
munuscula
nocte, 145
Ipsius ex ipso dempta viri gremio.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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If you do
not know about things Up Above, you won't
understand
how to fill it in,
and you will say it is impossible.
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Kipling - Poems |
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They bundle up the rushes for a boat
And try across the deepest place to float:
Beneath the willow trees they ride and stoop--
The awkward load will
scarcely
bear them up.
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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There are invisible bars I cannot break;
There are invisible doors that shut me in,
And keep me ever
steadfast
to my purpose.
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'--such a one can only be answered with another question: 'Is
Pierrot like a man, and has it been put beyond
question
that
Pontius Pilate was hanged for beating his wife?
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'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known,
Death was half glad when he had got him down;
For he had any time this ten yeers full,
Dodg'd with him, betwixt
Cambridge
and the Bull.
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Milton |
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[Footnote 1: A peculiar sort of whisky so called,
a great
favorite
with Poosie Nansie's clubs.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Indeed, the Idols I have loved so long
Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much wrong:
Have drown'd my Honour in a shallow Cup,
And sold my
Reputation
for a Song.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Return you me guilt, lethargy,
despair?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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is pretty
certainly
what Donne wrote.
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John Donne |
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Thine air is the young breath of passionate Thought;
Thy trees take root in Love; the snows above,[kk]
The very
Glaciers
have his colours caught,
And Sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought[21.
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Byron |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops,
slanting
rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit resounds upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Courage and patience are but sacrifice;
And sacrifice is offered for and to
Something
conceived
of.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I give you
_France!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There was the home of a motion picture director
Famous for lavish whore-house interiors,
Clothes
ransacked
from the latest designs for women
In the combats of "male against female.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquish'd one delight
To live beneath your more
habitual
sway;
I love the brooks which down their channels fret
Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they;
The innocent brightness of a new-born day
Is lovely yet;
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
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Golden Treasury |
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Just fifty years--a winter's day--
As runs the history of a race;
Yet, as we look back o'er the way,
How distant seems our
starting
place!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Who is the rustic who approaches this sacred
enclosure?
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Aristophanes |
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because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
pavement
sinks under my feet!
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Shelley |
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Extinguish my eyes, I still can see you,
Close my ears, I can hear your
footsteps
fall,
And without feet I still can follow you,
And without voice I still can to you call.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Well I know the secret places,
And the nests in hedge and tree;
At what doors are
friendly
faces,
In what hearts are thoughts of me.
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He died in 1173, possibly a victim of the
widespread
epidemic of that year.
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Troubador Verse |
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So
encloistered
had Mdlle.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Because the tongues of Garrison
And
Phillips
now are cold in death,
Think you their work can be undone?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Then he hid himself in the
refining
fire.
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Troubador Verse |
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I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed
In verse
Chalcidian
to the oaten reed
Of the Sicilian swain.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thus, I say,
Again, again, 'tmust be confessed there are
Such
congregations
of matter otherwhere,
Like this our world which vasty ether holds
In huge embrace.
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Lucretius |
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Therefore
that man who subjugated these,
And from the mind expelled, by words indeed,
Not arms, O shall it not be seemly him
To dignify by ranking with the gods?
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Lucretius |
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Come, beloved child, with me,
And I will bear thee to the bowers
Where clouds are painted o'er like flowers,
And pour into thy charmed ear
Songs a mortal may not hear;
Harmonies so sweet and ripe
As no inspired shepherd's pipe
E'er breathed into
Arcadian
glen,
Far from the busy haunts of men.
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Hugo - Poems |
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